Social Conformity Quotes

#1. In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

Kathleen Norris

#2. These are the sensations and feelings that are gradually blunted by education, staled by custom, rejected in favor of social conformity.

Herbert Read

#3. We're all teased or pressured into conforming to the all-levelling social norms of mediocrity.

H.M. Forester

#4. They need a social mechanism to make us require conformity of one other, and the best way to do that is to provide a mechanism to make us punish our own deviants.

Charles Stross

#5. Honestly, I was pretty sure AltaVista was going to destroy Google

Paul Buchheit

#6. We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette; it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism in men, and coquetry in women.

Robert Adam

#7. Conformity is the biggest enemy of progress. Break those limiting social rules.

Debasish Mridha

#8. In life, there are many things that may give you pleasure" - Albert Einstein

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#9. Conformity is contagious.

Isman H. Suryaman

#10. All these things were part of the business of dreams. He had learned not to laugh at the advertisements offering to teach writing, cartooning, engineering, to add inches to the biceps and to develop the bust

Nathanael West

#11. Not that I wish by any means to deny, that the mental life of individuals and peoples is also in conformity with law, as is the object of philosophical, philological, historical, moral, and social sciences to establish.

Hermann Von Helmholtz

#12. Diverse, horizontal social networks, in Ruef's analysis, were three times more innovative than uniform, vertical networks. In groups united by shared values and long-term familiarity, conformity and convention tended to dampen any potential creative sparks.

Steven Johnson

#13. We are told to value ourselves without feedback, but if nobody is making a pass at you or trying to take you to Bermuda, how are you supposed to feel? Confident?

Helen Gurley Brown

#14. Everything we know about human nature and about government tells us that individuals using their own money will achieve far more good for themselves and far more for others than politicians spending money they didn't have to work to earn.

Harry Browne

#15. I am apt to think, if we knew what it was to be an angel for one hour, we should return to this world, though it were to sit on the brightest throne in it, with vastly more loathing and reluctance than we would now descend into a loathsome dungeon or sepulchre.

George Berkeley

#16. Even a two-car parade gets fouled up if you don't decide ahead of time who's going to lead.

Zig Ziglar

#17. There's something known as "memory conformity," also known as "social contagion of memory," which refers to a situation where one person's telling of a memory influences another person's account of that same experience.

Rob Roberge

#18. Everything we did in the 1960s was designed to fission, to weaken faith in and conformity to the 1950s social order. Our precise surgical target was the Judeo-Christian power monolith, which has imposed a guilty, inhibited, grim, anti-body, anti-life repression on Western civilization.

Timothy Leary